SoftChalk LessonBuilder is an authoring tool that helps create digital learning objects for e-learning. This article provides an overview of how to create a crossword puzzle.
Once this software is open, go to the menu bar and click Insert, then Activity, then Crossword.
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In response to the March 10 article about PDF tools, readers provided the following suggestion: “OpenOffice has the capability to easily read many file formats and generate PDFs as output.” To learn more about the use of OpenOffice.org as a PDF tool, see www.openoffice.org.
The InfoTech Tuesday newsletter will not be published next week during spring break. Publication resumes Tuesday, March 24. If you have time during spring break, check out IT resources featured in previous issues (see below) and/or take time to learn that new software program or computer tool.
IT tools and resources in recent issues
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Have you ever wanted to make your own PDF files? The process has become increasingly simple over the last few years and now there are several free options out there for both PCs and Macs. Think of these solutions as PDF printers but instead of producing a sheet of paper with your document, a file will be saved instead.
While these solutions will create PDF files, they will not create fillable PDF forms. To produce a fillable PDF form, you will need to purchase a solution like Adobe Acrobat Standard or Pro (see Adobe’s Product comparison webpage).
The Pedometer tool in Google Maps combines cool mapping features with a digital pedometer in order to help walkers, runners, and cyclists track their distance. This tool is found at www.gmap-pedometer.com. Its homepage offers a pedometer feature to the left and a U.S. map to the right.
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Have you ever had a bunch of RSS feeds that were very similar and that you wished were just one aggregate feed? For instance, many sites publish a number of feeds for different parts of their content, and it would often be more useful to have all that content in one feed so you don’t have to check multiple sources for the content.
Or, have you ever had a bunch of feeds that share a certain topic and that you’d rather be in one feed rather than separated?
Yahoo Pipes offers a simple way to aggregate feeds. Yahoo Pipes is a service that has a wide range of applications and can be used for some fairly complex tasks. For this example, we will use it to easily perform three tasks:
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Google has a plethora of powerful searching techniques that often aren’t used. See lifehacker.com’s “Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks” to learn about the following search techniques:
